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"What's black and white and completely over?" American TV host Jon Stewart's barb referring to the state of the newspaper industry in that country might not match the present condition in Jamaica, but the woes of the newspaper business in the US might be a harbinger of the challenges ahead.

The Walkman, which turned 30 this month, got a nice birthday present of sorts from T3, a UK -based gearhead site that put Sony's antediluvian gadget atop its list of the 10 "most important musical innovations of the last 50 years." eBay's Top 10 Most Wanted Gadgets for 2008 Ebay has released a list of their most sought after tech gadgets for 2008.

The good: The Sony X-Series Walkman is a solid device with a sleek, utilitarian design and a unique, engaging interface; it's compatible with both Mac and Windows and supports podcasts from iTunes and videos from Amazon Unbox; it offers a plethora of features including an onboard Slacker app, integrated YouTube support, Wi-Fi, an FM tuner, and ...

When the Sony Walkman went on sale 30 years ago, it was shown off by a skateboarder to illustrate how the portable cassette-tape player delivered music on-the-go - a totally innovative idea back in 1979.

Equally innovative, groundbreaking and explosive, however, was the hottest new technology from Sony - the Walkman, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last week, on July 2. When the Walkman was first released, it weighed in at 14 ounces and was the size of a small book - titanic compared to today's teensy-weensy MP3 players.

Q: I am finally ready to cross that bridge and get me a touch screen player. I wanted to know your expert opinion on the Samsung P3 and the Sony Walkman X-Series . I purchase all my music from Napster, Amazon and some from Rhapsody.

1. The next day, Sony forever changed how Ring My Bell and other songs could be listened to when it introduced the Sony Walkman, a 14-ounce, portable stereo cassette player that allowed people to take and listen to their music collections wherever they wanted - on the bus and subway, at the beach, while jogging, bicycling, skiing, on airplanes or ...

THE future for MP3 players is not in size but in how much music they can store, a technology expert says.

Struggling for relevance in iPod age 'All we can do is keep going at it, selling our Walkman, one at a time.

"Put pride in your stride, a dip in your hip, the beat in your feet ... with Sony's Walkman" - from an early '80s Sony catalog When the first Sony Walkman hit the streets 30 years ago this week, it barely made a sound.

It's hard to imagine our lives without portable music--nowadays most of us can fit our entire music collection into an MP3 player the size of a deck of cards.

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Thirty years ago Sony launched the Walkman, a gadget which revolutionised the way people around the world listened to music but has since been overtaken by an icon of the digital age -- the iPod.

After 30 years, the tape-based Walkman has been left behind by digital music players, but that doesn't mean they weren't attractive in their day The pioneering Diamond Rio MP3 player still has an Amazon page The BBC got a 13-year-old to try a Walkman cassette tape player instead of his iPod, with obvious results.

When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, is started a revolution in portable music.

New York's Jeffrey Lewis is an original. On his latest, his verbose lyrics are oh so tragic-funny and oh so vivid.

When Sony introduced the Walkman 30 years ago, on July 1, 1979, it was, in a sense, already obsolete: Both Sony and Philips were already well on their way to developing the compact discs that would make trying to surgically repair the distended guts of your favorite REO Speedwagon cassette with a paper clip mere fodder for misplaced nostalgia.

The State Historical Society of North Dakota and the Chateau de Mores State Historic Site are introducing a download-ready audio tour of Medora.

"The Song Is You" by Arthur Phillips Arthur Phillips' ambitious fourth novel is more frustrating than fulfilling, but in it he accomplishes something as well as any writer ever has.

This Father's Day, don't make it about the stuff you saw in a 'Dads and Grads!' advertisement.